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1753. « though we never visited yonr garrets, we know what sort

m, so.

« of Doctors and authors you employ as journeymen m

"your manufacture. Did you in your dotage mistake the
« application, by tawingthose epithets at us which so pro-
« peilybelongtoyourown^mderstrappersr- But whatever
may have caused his secession then, now he certainly applied
again to Hamilton, a shrewd man, who had just made a large
fortune outofSmoUett's^on,, and,thoughnot very hbera

in his payments.!-already not unconscious of the value of
Griffith^ discarded writer. The result of the interview was
the publication, in the new-year number, of two more papers
by Goldsmith, apparently in continuation of the first. All
three had relation to a special subject; and, as connected
with such a man's obscurest fortunes, have an interest
hardly less than that of writings connected with his fame.
An author is seen in the effulgence of established repute, or
Discovered by his cries of struggling distress. By both
" you shall know him."

Ovid was the leading topic in all three. His Fasti,
translated by a silly master of a Wandsworth boarding-
school, named Massey; his Epistles, translated by a pedantic
pedagogue named Barrett (a friend of Johnson and Cave);
and an antidote to his Art of Love, in an Art. of Pleasing
by Mr. Marriott; were the matters taken in hand. The Art of
Pleasing was treated with playful contempt,! and Mr. Massey's
Fasti fared still worse. Here Goldsmith closed a series of
most unsparing comparisons of the original with his trans-
lator, by asking leave "to remind Mr. Massey of the old Italian
"proverb" (IZ traMttores tradatore) "and to hope he will

* Oritical Review, iv. 469-73, Nov. 1757.

t See Percival Stockdale's Memoirs (1809), ii. 57.

+ Critical Review, vii. 26-30, Jan. 1759.



	[BOOK. II. 1753. « though we never visited yonr garrets, we know what sort

	m, so.	« of Doctors and authors you employ as journeymen m
	m, so.	"your manufacture. Did you in your dotage mistake the « application, by tawingthose epithets at us which so pro- « peilybelongtoyourown^mderstrappersr- But whatever may have caused his secession then, now he certainly applied again to Hamilton, a shrewd man, who had just made a large fortune outofSmoUett's^on,, and,thoughnot very hbera in his payments.!-already not unconscious of the value of Griffith^ discarded writer. The result of the interview was the publication, in the new-year number, of two more papers by Goldsmith, apparently in continuation of the first. All three had relation to a special subject; and, as connected with such a man's obscurest fortunes, have an interest hardly less than that of writings connected with his fame. An author is seen in the effulgence of established repute, or Discovered by his cries of struggling distress. By both " you shall know him." Ovid was the leading topic in all three. His Fasti, translated by a silly master of a Wandsworth boarding- school, named Massey; his Epistles, translated by a pedantic pedagogue named Barrett (a friend of Johnson and Cave); and an antidote to his Art of Love, in an Art. of Pleasing by Mr. Marriott; were the matters taken in hand. The Art of Pleasing was treated with playful contempt,! and Mr. Massey's Fasti fared still worse. Here Goldsmith closed a series of most unsparing comparisons of the original with his trans- lator, by asking leave "to remind Mr. Massey of the old Italian "proverb" (IZ traMttores tradatore) "and to hope he will * Oritical Review, iv. 469-73, Nov. 1757. t See Percival Stockdale's Memoirs (1809), ii. 57. + Critical Review, vii. 26-30, Jan. 1759.